M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated ...

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

The question of peace between the M23 and Kinshasa is also the question of a ceasefire between Kigali and Kinshasa. Both have ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

CONGOLESE soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel recently to stand trial for crimes including ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

Their statements during the court martial proceedings highlighted the dysfunction of an army that has now lost more territory in eastern Congo than ever before to Rwanda-backed M23 fighters ...

And successive presidents are said to have kept it weak for fear of a coup. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept ...